Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tales of the Greene Freighter

Although
in the real world, unlike in
Watchmen,
superhero comics were not
completely replaced by pirate comics, a few publishers did test those
waters. Quality's Buccaneers took over the numbering of
Kid Eternity
with issue 19 and lasted to 27.

Some of
Sid Greene's work at Quality has been noted—the Inspector
Denver story
in Police
104, a romance story here and there—but his only series here
that I know of is the second half of Eric Falcon's run in
Buccaneers.
Falcon was a soldier of fortune in Colonial times; not every adventure
involved pirates.

Other
artists work on the series in Buccaneers
19-23 before Greene comes aboard. He most likely inks himself in
25 and 26; I didn't even recognize the story in 24 as his until I
looked over the series again before writing this post.